@willdoingthings why
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit all the best philosophers came from there and their culture naively seems the most reasonable on Earth4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @willdoingthings
@willdoingthings northwest european culture naively seems the most reasonable on earth but not specifically german culture1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit Other countries seem more annoyingly prog.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @willdoingthings
@willdoingthings germans are mostly incapable of thinking about transhumanist stuff because they're pathologically afraid to be seen as nazi1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit I hear that's not as true lately. Either way I'm fine with it. Transhumanism is mostly a mediocre way to frame good things.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @willdoingthings
@willdoingthings i mean they're incapable of thinking about the relevant issues regardless of how they are framed2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit What relevant issues matter though? No one's getting on Schmidhuber for engineering a robotic Fourth Reich.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @willdoingthings
@willdoingthings i guess i was expressing disapproval of vague cultural tendencies because we were talking about vague cultural tendencies1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit Idk. The German individuals I've interacted with have been awesome. I've never encountered relevant anti-transhumanism.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@willdoingthings also there's a tendency toward long-term pessimism to signal against american techno-optimism
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@willdoingthings pessimism as in "none of the important technologies will ever pan out, we're all going to die of global warming, repent"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@willdoingthings "future technology can't happen because we're continentals who appreciate the human dimension of life"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 3 more replies
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